This ongoing research project investigates the role of TikTok during the 2024 Romanian presidential elections, including the platform’s use in post-election annulment reactions and mobilisations.
The project’s initial phase took place at the Digital Methods Winter School in January 2025, where we experimented with formats for retrospective display – drawing inspiration from creative coding, algorithmic composition, multiperspective live action replays, and the aesthetics of forensic reconstruction. You can read more about this work in this blog post.
The project Digital Methods in Brazil explores emerging creative approaches that harness the web, its technologies, and data to tackle research questions.It investigates which digital methods are being adopted, their purposes, and their significance for understanding digital media and culture. It also examines who is developing research software to study digital culture.
This project aims to establish aDigital Methods Global South network, starting with the Brazilian landscape.
🔗 You are welcome to join the Digital Methods Global South Network by collaborating with us to map Digital Methods in Brazil (click here!). The results of this form will be displayed here and updated continuously 🤓.
How can soundscapes be used as a way to attend to forest life and the many different ways of narrating and relating to forests, forest issues and forest protection and restoration efforts?
The forestscapes project aims to explore and document generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support “collective inquiry” into forests as living cultural landscapes.
To receive occasional email updates about the project you can sign up here.
If you’re interested in collaborating or hosting a forestscapes workshop you can contact: forestscapes@publicdatalab.publicdatalab.org
If you’re interested in critical technical practices and you’d like to follow work in this area, we’ve set up a mailing list here for sharing projects, publications, events and other activities: https://jiscmail.ac.uk/CRITICAL-TECHNICAL-PRACTICES
Further details (links will be added here as they are available):
John-Mathews, J.-M., De Mourat, R., Ricci, D., & Crépel, M. (2023). Re-enacting machine learning practices to enquire into the moral issues they pose. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231174584
Koed Madsen, A. (2023). Digital methods as ‘experimental a priori’ – how to navigate vague empirical situations as an operationalist pragmatist. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221144260
Jacomy, M., & Munk, A. K. (2022). Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221129053
Pawlicka-Deger, U. (2022). Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221111073
Ogden, J., Summers, E., & Walker, S. (2023). Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231164759
Hirsbrunner, S. D., Tebbe, M., & Müller-Birn, C. (2022). From critical technical practice to reflexive data science. Convergence.https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221132243
Rieder, B., Peeters, S., & Borra, E. (2022). From tool to tool-making: Reflections on authorship in social media research software. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221127094
Chao, J., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2024). Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791
